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As technology continues to infiltrate every corner of the K-12 educational space, administrators, teachers, and students are undoubtedly curious about what's coming around the bend in 2011. Will the cloud continue to reign? Will more schools embrace student-centric mobile devices? Education technology experts discuss their top technology trends for the coming year. More
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IT technology research and advisory company Gartner reported Monday that worldwide PC sales will miss the 17.9 percent growth Gartner had initially projected for the year in September. The firm also indicated that tablets could replace 10 percent of worldwide PC sales by 2014. MoreCyber security will be no easier in the new year than it is now, as malware proprietors get more sophisticated in their phishing attempts, malware-as-a-service becomes the norm, and smart phones and tablets draw increased attention from cyber criminals. MoreExinda has updated ExOS, the operating system that runs on its application acceleration appliances. Exinda's technology helps IT administrators monitor and prioritize network traffic and control network access in order to improve application performance. MoreRed Hat this week said it has acquired Makara, a provider of software that will help the open source software provider accelerate the build-out its cloud services. MoreSeeking to optimize accessibility and minimize congestion on its new student information system, Springfield Public Schools (SPS) of Springfield, MA has implemented a system of application delivery controllers (ADC) and server load balancers, to distribute Web traffic evenly across its servers. MoreMicrosoft noted last week that its security team is looking into an elevation-of-privilege exploit affecting Windows-based systems. MoreUntangle has updated its firewall application. Version 8.0 of flagship product, Untangle, includes a module specifically for controlling bandwidth usage. MoreGoogle last week announced Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, a service that will let individuals synchronize and share their documents with Google Docs. More
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